Blood Shaper-Chapter 48Book 6:
Kay slammed himself to a stop in midair, halting his armor and blood in his veins in place and letting the rest of his be held back by them. Muscles and skin tore in the response to the sudden acceleration drawing him to a stop and quickly stitched back together under his regeneration. Below him a giant writhing beast continued to unfold from the humanoid avatar. A bestial, wolf-like muzzle came first, trailed by a long, sinuous body that resembled an eel. Chitinous, insectile legs sprouted from the underside every few feet and frantically searching human eyes covered each side of the long body In two rows. At the base of the growing creature where the humanoid form still stood a forest of tentacles rose, some of them growing large enough to rival the massive mockery of a dragon that was the main form of the abomination.
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The animistic maw stretched widely in the sky and unleashed a horrific roar-screech that brought the fighting below to a halt. Soldiers there to end the eldritch threat and vampyr alike turned to gape at the monstrosity that smashed the beleaguered palace apart as it grew and grew. Walls and ceilings shattered as tentacles tipped with claws, fangs, spikes, grasping fingers, and swollen protrusions smashed through them and then began rampaging about, destroying the structure that partially trapped the monster.
The beast swung it’s ponderous head toward Kay as it opened three eyes placed in a triangle above the slavering gullet opened and individually turned to stare at him. Distant voices that sounded like the avatar’s echoed from somewhere along the body, but the destruction it was causing drowned them out enough that Kay could only make out the occasional word without any context. From the tone the monster was questioning him or perhaps lecturing, but it went unheard.
A ringing scream of pure, insane joy caused Kay to glance away and he saw the vampyr from earlier, the one that had created the barriers and likely killed Edric Ravenhome and his team alongside the Blood Guard who had accompanied Kay climbing a still-standing section of the palace and holding out it’s arms in joy. Over the sounds of structures being razed he barely heard, “The Great One! The True Great One is finally-!”, before a tentacle squashed the ecstatic vampyr into paste. With the eldritch avatar grown into an abomination still staring at Kay and it’s distant voices still speaking, Kay got the idea that it hadn’t even noticed the creature created through the spread of it’s “blood” speaking of it, it had destroyed the thing with an autonomic response.
The beat’s eyes narrowed at Kay. The voices rang out louder in anger but Kay still couldn’t hear them. When he didn’t respond the monster snarled and lunged at him. It’s mouth opened wide, filled with jagged teeth covered in spines that twisted back in on themselves. It closed over where Kay had been but he was already moving backward as he unleashed a sprays of blood that coated the monster and started stabbing into it where ever the liquid landed with solid blades. The monster ignored the growing coatings cutting into it and continued trying to bite down on Kay even as it’s tentacles began picking up chunks of broken building and hurling them at him.
Kay’s halberd lashed out at the side of the abomination as it missed him by a few feet, his armor cracked and small fragments broke off as the shockwave from the giant jaws closing buffeted him, and the blade expanded as he drew it across the side of it’s head, leaving a huge cut that leaked a bright fluid that Kay couldn’t speak the color of which flowed faster than water as it leaked from the wound. Tainted tendrils of off-color “flesh” jumped across the gap and began pulling the hole closed. The eyes lining the body of the creature began launching short beams of tainted energy that flashed through the sky and Kay was forced to move instead of trying a follow up.
Below the fight between otherworldly kaiju and the Outworlder king, the two armies were fleeing. Excepting those vampyr too mad to realize they were in danger and those to injured to get away everyone began running away from the titan crushing the city beneath it as it chased Kay. Those that could helped carry or drag their comrades that couldn’t move as quickly out of the path of falling projectiles made of falling buildings but many were crushed as the stone missiles that missed Kay crashed at the end of their flights.
Massive red hands grew from Kay’s back with matching arms following them until Kay was the source of six limbs larger than those of the asura golem he’d once faced. Two of them caught chunks of the palace that had been thrown at him and returned them at high speeds while the others began striking the monster after forming into fists. The ruined pieces of building crumbled against the monster’s hide with little effect as they impacted and the massive swings at the abominable maw only knocked it about. The beams erupting from the multitude of eyes began chipping into the hands as Kay detached them from himself and threw them at the avatar to try and pin it down.
A small orb of blood formed between Kay’s hands as he drew himself back and grew the distance. The monstrosity sprouted from the ruins of Nelam’s palace struggled against the grasping red hands that tried to keep it pinned down as the orb began to spin and grow. The more blood Kay fed into it the larger it grew until it was no longer an orb and instead became a swirling spherical maelstrom. Kay lifted his arms above his head as his attack grew large enough to eclipse the moon were someone standing on the ground looking up at him and he shifted more and more blood from his Folded Veins into the building attack.
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The disfigured wolf’s head attached to an eel’s body ripped at the gargantuan hands, tearing pieces from them and then spitting them out as the began hissing and bubbling inside the maw. Eye beams burned away bits of blood that crawled across the surface of the abomination, stabbing and digging at it’s “flesh”. One of them turned upward to look for Kay and saw him preparing to smite it. The three main eyes swiveled to look at him and the beast growled in outrage. It opened it’s mouth and unleashed a unearthly discordant howl that rang with promises of bloodshed and despair. The sound of it became a physical attack as it reached Kay and shook the very fabric of existence around him with the threat of a cosmovore’s wrath.
Kay ignored it. The shaking and battering his body received as air and space buffeted him about and tried to wreck his concentration was of no matter. Instead he laughed to himself at his pose. He was standing in the sky holding both arms above himself as he prepared a glowing ball of energy to come crashing down on a world destroying monster. His attack wasn’t a bomb though. As the eldritch avatar snapped, snarled, and tried to wrestle free of it’s bindings Kay leveled his hands and unleashed the destruction he had been building to.
The whirling storm unfurled into a red cyclone hundreds of feet wide that crashed down on the monster. The front of the descending spiral formed itself into a drill head that burrowed inside the tainted, expanded form of the abomination. Pressurized droplets of blood pierced through it farther than bullets could have and solidified blades flensed the meat of the monster with each pass as they spiraled around it. Shaped penetrators punched holes in the avatar’s sides and traveled as far as they could before detonating in explosions of released energy that rent craters open all along the body. The edges of the cyclone itself were a grinding force that crushed the corrupted eldritch existence of the avatar into particulates that were absorbed by drops of blood that melted the tainted fragments into nothing.
All of that was followed up by a monumental guillotine blade that rode the storm down and sliced through the monster’s head, bisecting it’s third eye and dividing the main stalk of it’s body in twain all along its length until it slammed into the ground a crushed the humanoid avatar form that was still standing in the same place it had been. The two halves stood erect for a long moment as the blood storm died before they slowly began falling away from each other and landed among the city, turning even more of it into useless rubble as the ground shook from their impact. Even the ritual circle carved into the ground that the vampyr had been protecting so hard was shattered as a section of the creature landed on it.
Kay stared down at the abomination, not believing for a second that the battle was over. He was proved right almost immediately. The tentacles sprouting from the base of the body had fallen still as the blade had cut down to the base of the monster, but they resumed a furious activity as they started burrowing into the two halved heads laying on the ground. They dug into the “flesh” and pierced out of it like cables roots growing through soft ground, diving back in and making more connections as they flowed over the bisected parts. They fused together into nauseating multicolored lumps that fused into each other to create the shape of half on a giant pair of arms along the shredded sides of the previous main body. Two fingers and a thumb grew next to cavernous openings filled with broken teeth that flopped aimlessly next to the wiggling new digits.
The arms extended up into the air, dangling from the ends of swarms of tentacles that hadn’t stopped melting into each other as two giant, sightless eyes stared into nothing and two halves of a tongue flopped out into the air. The tentacles lifted the crushed, now tiny humanoid body into the air and squirmed around it as they merged into one another, forming the outline of a head. The crushed original avatar disappeared beneath the moving tendrils as two green flames lit inside of hollow caverns meant to resemble eye sockets.
A disfigured slash opened among the twisted shifting mockery of a head. “Your insolence matters not!” The avatar’s voice boomed out. “I will eat! I will devour! I will consume! The ritual circles, the vampyr, all of it but that little fragment of the System are but conveniences that I can do without! I will not let you rob me of the feast I have been planning for so long! I will crush you, take back powerless fragment of a broken existence and ingest a thousand realities through it’s folly!”
“[Lord’s Bloody Domain]. [Mandate to Blood Spilled].”
Kay’s voice somehow echoed even farther through space than the deafening rumble coming form the avatar of Hungering Void as he called out the names of two of his most powerful Skills via the Voice of the World. The range of his Skills, already a considerable distance, grew to envelop several miles of terrain. Then his second Skill activated, the one that drew upon the memories of blood spilled in the past to make it part of the present. Miles of land that covered the destroyed capital of a no longer existing brutal slaving nation built on conquest and destruction that had been the recent site of a callous and violent multi-sided civil war at the same time as a slave revolt had the memories of all blood spilled there over the past hundreds of years. Nelam had not been that old of a nation as far as Torotia went, but that didn’t matter. The amount of blood that had been shed there was immense.
A literal sea of blood rose from the ground and submerged ruins and buildings, coating stone in thick, sticky blood. Surviving vampyr drowned and melted away as they were dragged beneath the surface, leaving trace ripples as they struggled against their deaths and the retreating soldiers stared in awe and horror at the evidence of how repugnant Nelam had been before it’s destruction. The ground sitting distantly beneath Kay’s feet became a flat red surface only occasionally punctured by a still-standing building tall enough to remain visible above the sanguine sea Kay had summoned into being.
The green flames shifted downward like eyes as the avatar looked at the swells of blood crashing against its flanks. The entire sea was filled with Kay’s anti-eldritch Skill and the monster’s sides began to bubble and burn.
Kay held out a hand as he formed a sword in his fist and the cracks in his armor sealed themselves shut. “Come and take it, then.”
